Work out in Chinese
to work out · HSK 3
锻炼
- 锻 to forge
- 炼 to refine
我每天早上去公园锻炼。 I go to the park to exercise every morning.
Other ways to say work out
How do you say work out in Chinese?
Work out in Chinese is 锻炼 (duàn liàn). You can also say 健身 (jiàn shēn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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